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In article Pine.WNT.4.58.0406302042540.1172@ZVAVZBB,
(Michael Hoffman) wrote:

What defines whether an LU worker is in RMT or ASLEF?

ASLEF normally only cater for drivers, whereas RMT seem to cater all
grades. TSSA are more white collar type(?) grades such as ticket office
staff.

ASLEF have been one of the traditional unions who keep very specifically
to one field of employment. It has not sought to merge with other
unions, as has been the tendency from others. The RMT (product of the
NUR and NUS merger of the early 1990s) has been on recruiting drives in
the professions it didn't traditionally have members, and not only in
the rail industry (NUMAST have been annoyed at them attempting to
recruit officers in merchant vessels, traditionally their territory,
in addition to the ratings which the NUS had).

One thing that should be understood is that each trade union
traditionally hates the others, usually more than it hates the
management.

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